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title: The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before en… — The Wonderful Wizard of Oz · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely: Who acts: soldier, strangers. A sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz, sentence 16

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The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely:

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**Who acts:** soldier, strangers · **What happens:** make, wipe, enter, seat, say · **To what, where:** strangers, feet, green mat, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter XI. The Wonderful City of Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, strangers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg55:13:16
# text = The soldier made them all wipe their feet upon a green mat before entering this room, and when they were seated he said politely:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	advmod	_	_
6	wipe	wipe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	xcomp	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the soldier | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wipe** | present | strangers *= stranger* *not said here* | strangers's feet |  | a green mat |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon mat=Trajectory |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | strangers *= stranger* *not said here* | this room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 4 | **seat** | past · passive |  | strangers *= stranger* |  |  |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | soldier |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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